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That's such a frightening story in so many ways. I'd imagine being thrown by one of them wouldn't do much for your health, especially not if you were picked up by the head. Whiplash would be the least of your problems if you found yourself in that situation.

The story is plausible to me.
Bob Garrett has told of an amazing experience when way out bush gold prospecting for an extended period.
He had fallen very ill and was unable to make it to civilisation despite a desperate attempt.
After fainting he dreamt of being carried and next thing he knew a fellow was helping him into his camper to take him to hospital where he almost died. The camper was amazed at how Bob had made it so far being so ill and told Bob he damn near broke his camper wall thumping it so hard.

Before falling ill he had tried to stop a massive Sasquatch from destroying his fish traps by making it a larger one it could get its hands into! There were many other interactions before he fell ill, including tossing it food he had cooked over his fire.
When he fell ill but before he got so sick he couldn't move the squatch had brought him a freshly killed rabbit.

Wolf wrote:The story is plausible to me.
Bob Garrett has told of an amazing experience when way out bush gold prospecting for an extended period.
He had fallen very ill and was unable to make it to civilisation despite a desperate attempt.
After fainting he dreamt of being carried and next thing he knew a fellow was helping him into his camper to take him to hospital where he almost died. The camper was amazed at how Bob had made it so far being so ill and told Bob he damn near broke his camper wall thumping it so hard.

Before falling ill he had tried to stop a massive Sasquatch from destroying his fish traps by making it a larger one it could get its hands into! There were many other interactions before he fell ill, including tossing it food he had cooked over his fire.
When he fell ill but before he got so sick he couldn't move the squatch had brought him a freshly killed rabbit.

"Thank your mother for the rabbit."
Sounds like he escaped by a hare (someone please stop me!).

Left and right... two sides of the same coin... a deliberate 'team' or tribal mentality used by TPTTTB to keep us divided.

So you have obviously been triggered by this article, which does indicate to me (rightly or wrongly) that you have some race sensitivities.
Please explain to the rest of us, who did not see this article as a having anything to do with racist slurs (just relating a story), how it is so obviously racist to you.

Also despite your claim that you are "not really here to talk politics" you then post a link to an article about the supposed sexual proclivities of a UKIP member. What has that got to do with anything in this thread other than Wolf's jibes? No doubt he was as confused as the rest of us as to why the abrupt accusations of racism out of nowhere and made some assumptions.

We don't know anything about you but thus far you are the one who has injected unwelcome hostility into this thread by the tone of you posting about racial slurs that are not obvious to anyone else.
Why?

Left and right... two sides of the same coin... a deliberate 'team' or tribal mentality used by TPTTTB to keep us divided.

Far right, far left... far out. Rather than distract this thread any further by showing what fascists the far left LITERALLY are to 'balance' your link, I will merely reiterate they are both sides of the same coi, and genuinely enquire with respect... why is it rascist?

Boab Bob wrote:This is just a nasty little racist made-up story designed to rope naive aussies into supporting the far right. I hope YH will delete this thread.

If you're referring to Annie's attacker's nationality being mentioned in the context of his behaviour, then that's a matter of opinion.

The Article wrote:someone grabbed her by the shoulder and threw her to the ground. Stunned and with the wind knocked out of her, she lay there for a moment when a short fellow with facial tattoos and a machete, threatened her and shouted at her in Spanish. We have a problem with undocumented immigrant gangs growing Mary Jane in the backwoods. Most of it was cleared up when Washington State and Oregon legalized recreational weed, but gangs still grow for the purpose of selling in Idaho. Annie doesn't speak any Spanish but thought the guy was gonna rape and kill her given that he straddled her and grabbed her shirt trying to rip it off of her. That was when the most horrific roar came from the bushes.

At no point does the article claim that this man was a rapist due to his nationality; that label is applied due to his actions.

I can see what you're getting at in terms of stereotyping (the face tattoo, the machete, speaking Spanish, etc...he seems to embody every cliché in the book). I don't see the article as a propaganda tool of the far right, however. I doubt that even in the age of alternative facts and fake news that Trump supporters are trying to get the cryptozoology vote, etc.

We also don't know anything about Annie's racial background (it isn't referred to at all), so if we assume it's a sordid tale about a Mexican man trying to rape an Anglo-Saxon woman, then I can see where your charge of racism comes from. From that viewpoint, I would agree that the man is portrayed in a stereotypical way.

I do not see this as a tool of the far right, though, and I agree with Wolf's point that the whole right/left paradigm is crippling nuanced political debate in every democratic nation on Earth at the moment - perhaps it's a side-effect of modern globalisation, or a natural progression in the inevitable waxing and waning of all large, trading cultures?

Boab Bob wrote:This is just a nasty little racist made-up story designed to rope naive aussies into supporting the far right. I hope YH will delete this thread.

If you're referring to Annie's attacker's nationality being mentioned in the context of his behaviour, then that's a matter of opinion.

The Article wrote:someone grabbed her by the shoulder and threw her to the ground. Stunned and with the wind knocked out of her, she lay there for a moment when a short fellow with facial tattoos and a machete, threatened her and shouted at her in Spanish. We have a problem with undocumented immigrant gangs growing Mary Jane in the backwoods. Most of it was cleared up when Washington State and Oregon legalized recreational weed, but gangs still grow for the purpose of selling in Idaho. Annie doesn't speak any Spanish but thought the guy was gonna rape and kill her given that he straddled her and grabbed her shirt trying to rip it off of her. That was when the most horrific roar came from the bushes.

At no point does the article claim that this man was a rapist due to his nationality; that label is applied due to his actions.

I can see what you're getting at in terms of stereotyping (the face tattoo, the machete, speaking Spanish, etc...he seems to embody every cliché in the book). I don't see the article as a propaganda tool of the far right, however. I doubt that even in the age of alternative facts and fake news that Trump supporters are trying to get the cryptozoology vote, etc.

We also don't know anything about Annie's racial background (it isn't referred to at all), so if we assume it's a sordid tale about a Mexican man trying to rape an Anglo-Saxon woman, then I can see where your charge of racism comes from. From that viewpoint, I would agree that the man is portrayed in a stereotypical way.

I do not see this as a tool of the far right, though, and I agree with Wolf's point that the whole right/left paradigm is crippling nuanced political debate in every democratic nation on Earth at the moment - perhaps it's a side-effect of modern globalisation, or a natural progression in the inevitable waxing and waning of all large, trading cultures?

Yep... two elections ago ABC radio asked people to call in and say who they were going to vote for and why.
I told them, 'certainly not any of the major parties.'
DJ: 'why not?'
Me: 'coz it's an illusion of choice, all the major parties are bought and paid for by the same financial interests.'
DJ asked what I meant by that.
I replied with 'well the vast majority of your listeners would not know the Reserve Bank of Australia has private shareholders...'

My call was cut as soon as I mentioned this all important truth to the control of our money supply and hence us.
When I called back and asked them why I was cut off they told me my line had simply dropped out.
Project Echelon at work?

Interestingly I could publish links and truth of Clinton's corruption as much as I liked on YouTube but as soon as I started mentioning the Central bankster control over us all my account started 'having problems'.

I definitely agree that the whole right/left divide is scam designed to manipulate people - it may have had some broader social significance in the past, but is now a work of fiction intended to make sure that either one of the major parties is always in control.

The simplistic notions they've always relied on - that if you wear a collar and tie you'll vote for the LNP or if you work with your hands you'll vote for the ALP - seem cartoonishly outdated in the modern world, and the recent revolt of so many people across the world against mainstream politics (see the rise of Trump, Marine Le Pen, Brexit, Rodrigo Duterte) is a direct result of their failure to have seen this coming.

Edmund Burke - a political theorist ahead of his time - wrote about this as far back as 1790. Much of what he had to say then about the French Revolution is still valid today.

love em, ...good stories.
I must have missed the racism angle,
but there are snowflakes all around ready to pounce on the slightest off target hint of non-pc.
if there was talk of an attempted rape, shouldn't the witness give a full description?
if bob was robbed by a street gang, would he give a good description, or omit any potentially racist details. lol. lol. lol.
anyway, the helpful yowie/ bigfoot is the one we all want to meet.